Wissam Beydoun

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Wissam Beydoun’s artistic practice unfolds within the fluid boundaries of abstraction, cartography, and landscape, constructing a dialogue between natural rhythm and urban memory. Educated at the Lebanese American University, where he graduated with distinction as recipient of the Sheikh Zayed Award, Beydoun has developed a visual idiom grounded in the organic morphology of mountains and in the mutable identity of Beirut. His compositions, meticulously layered in watercolour, acrylic, pastel, and mixed media, translate the landscape into a site of affective and spatial resonance. In his recent series, Beirut becomes both subject and metaphor, its density and fragmentation reimagined through personal maps that recast the city as a labyrinth rather than a fixed geography. This cartographic language challenges the presumed objectivity of mapping, transforming it into a medium of introspection and emotional recall. Beydoun has exhibited extensively in Lebanon and France, including at the Salon d’Automne of the Sursock Museum, and his works form part of numerous private collections. His visual discourse privileges the evocation of light, atmosphere, and transience over literal depiction, positioning his art between abstraction and topography. Through this synthesis, Beydoun’s oeuvre operates as a meditative reconstruction of place, tracing the porous boundaries between memory, imagination, and lived experience.